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Within her plot of land, her child could run around. Within this street, her husband could walk to the café unobstructed by hateful glares or murmurs. "There was a togetherness that I - I just can't forget. It was home. It was pleasant, and I -," Collins says, before pausing to look around her street.
"If spring break had been one week later, I wouldn't have gone to Mexico," she said. "Everything was changing so quickly." In 2009, Creech was one of an estimated 49 million people in the U.S. who got the H1N1 virus and later developed pneumonia. Creech fully understood, she said, the fear of contracting something new.
He remembers "the first day of hell" perfectly. It was the early '90s when grandpa gave 5-year-old Zacarías a machete. "You're old enough now," his grandfather said to him. "Go on and get to work." Little Zacarías grabbed the machete and with all his scrawny, malnourished strength, hacked away at the coffee plants.
"These are disturbing. I would be offended by them," said Theresa McCormick, associate dean of the College of Education, as she looked at printed screenshots of Bruce Murray's online posts. "But he has the freedom of speech.
When the Oakland City Council approved a new policy this week to limit warrant-less searches by police on parolees and probationers, Katie Dixon thought of her two brothers, both recently released from prison. "They're just beginning their journey with parole," said Dixon, who is a policy fellow at Prisoners with Children, an organization in Oakland focused on restoring rights for incarcerated individuals.
Protesters gripped signs reading, "Stop the torture - free the children" and gathered outside the San Francisco office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday afternoon to protest President Trump's plans to deport thousands of undocumented immigrants. "When immigrant rights are under attack, what do we do?
Before Gov. Kay Ivey acknowledged she wore blackface - while maintaining that she did not recall the racist skit of her doing so - Auburn University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Department was going through tape reels from the '60s, digitizing their contents, when they stumbled upon one with the label: "Student Reflections on BSU Night Kay Ivey, Ben LaRavia."
Parents from 13 countries, many recently naturalized U.S. citizens, gathered at Children's Fairyland in Oakland on Monday to see their children become what they had so desperately prayed, traveled and longed for: citizens of the United States. Madi Ahdo, a U.S.
The gray Nissan, slightly rusted at the edges, still sits in the driveway of a suburban neighborhood. There, last Thursday night, Martha White Jones, 66, was shot and killed by her soon-to-be stepson, according to an affidavit. The Nissan, neighbors said, belonged to Jones.
Large trucks and vehicles carrying bulldozers drive through the small roads bordered by uprooted trees. The people in this small town walk up and down the streets and stare at the destruction. On Lee County Road 11, there's a gathering of mournful neighbors.